CHAPTER 196: CHAPTER 194 MAYA IS NOT AFRAID [UPDATE 19]

"Maya, how crazy do you want to get? He’s not sick; he’s obviously asleep. Sister Parker, hurry up and lock her up. She’s having another episode here."

In the Spencer Family’s living room, Maya kneels on the ground, clutching Hannah’s leg, begging her to call a doctor for her child.

But once again, Hannah has someone lock her up.

Ever since she gave birth, she’s been treated as a lunatic, locked up in the Spencer family.

She clearly saw her baby was sick, and no matter how she called, she couldn’t wake him up. Yet they insisted she was crazy, speaking madness, refusing to call a doctor for the baby.

She also saw that every time, Elia Spencer would use a needle to prick her baby and cover the baby’s mouth to stop her from crying.

Kept in her room, she wanted to save the baby, but despite crying until she was heartbroken and hoarse, no one paid her any attention.

No matter how she called Liam Spencer, begging him to save the child, he walked past her as if he didn’t hear.

As if she didn’t exist, as if the child didn’t exist either!

In the room, she looked at her cold baby lying on the bed. She touched his forehead, gently took him in her arms, wanting to warm him, but found that even she was growing colder.

She cried out desperately, screaming at her baby to open his eyes, but his face was pale, motionless.

"Maya! Maya! Having a nightmare? Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!" Beside her, Liam Spencer was awakened by Maya’s heart-wrenching crying.

He held her tightly, calling out to her, wiping the tears from her face.

Seeing Maya crying even in her dreams, Liam Spencer was heartbroken.

He couldn’t guess what she dreamt of, why she was crying so sorrowfully, and could only hold her tightly.

Moments later, Maya was woken up. She opened her eyes, looking at the man before her, illuminated by the small lamp at the bedside. Suddenly, she went mad.

She raised her hands, frantically hitting Liam Spencer’s face and chest.

While crying loudly, she blamed him: "Why? Why did you leave? Why didn’t you save us?"

Liam Spencer heard the girl’s complaints, confused, and where her palms landed, it hurt.

But he didn’t get angry; instead, he held her tighter, comforting: "I won’t leave, I won’t leave! I won’t go anywhere. Where Maya is, I will be! No matter what danger you’re in, I’ll save you, don’t be afraid!"

"Why? Why? Why did you leave?" Maya continued crying even as she was pulled into Liam Spencer’s embrace.

The dream just now was too real! More real than any before; she had never felt so helpless.

She even wanted to die with the baby, but in the dream, she couldn’t die; she could only watch helplessly as the baby died.

"Maya, don’t be afraid; dreams are nothing to be afraid of." Liam Spencer patted her shoulder, comforting.

Maya listened to the man’s comfort, gradually calming her emotions.

As she realized her own loss of control, she quickly pushed Liam Spencer away, yet her head hurt in pulses, dizzy and uncomfortable.

She slowly kept her emotions in check, stopping her sobbing.

Afterward, she crawled up from the bed, went to the bedroom study, took a glass bottle with pills out of the cabinet, poured two pills, and swallowed them dry.

Liam Spencer, following her, watched the girl’s actions, grabbed her hand, and asked, "Maya, what are you taking?"

Maya heard the man’s questioning, quickly shook off his hand, explaining: "A bit of a headache, painkiller."

Then she asked again: "Is it raining?"

Because her headaches only acted up when it rained, and they were accompanied by nightmares.

Hearing her talk about rain, Liam Spencer immediately went to look at the floor-to-ceiling window in the study. Sure enough, it was raining, and heavily at that.

He couldn’t help but lament: "Tonight, the moon was quite bright."

Listening to the man’s words, Maya slowly walked into the bedroom, saying: "No stars!"

Stars? Liam Spencer hadn’t seen stars in a long time; the last time was during a summer camp in elementary school when he saw fireflies too.

Following Maya into the bedroom, Liam Spencer watched her crawl back onto the bed, crawled up along with her, held her tightly in his arms, and asked:

"Maya, what were you dreaming about just now, crying so bitterly?"

"I don’t remember clearly," Maya replied indifferently.

Actually, she had had that dream countless times, could recite every line.

But she didn’t want to tell Liam Spencer, didn’t want him to know she had always been heartbroken over the baby she didn’t keep.

Sometimes she thought it might be a good thing the baby didn’t have the good fortune to come into the world.

If he really came, and Liam Spencer didn’t give him a status, he wouldn’t be happy, might end up worse than her.

When she was little, her mom was free, Edward Spencer at least loved her.

But she was different. She and Liam were just torturing each other.

If Liam Spencer ignored them, or when he was angry, threw them back to the Spencer family.

That dream was a true reflection of her life. Her mom’s burial could choke Maya to death in the Spencers’. How could she not be affected by the child’s threat?

If the baby had stayed by chance years ago, she kept trapped in the Spencer family, never returned to her uncle, she dared not imagine the future.

Nestled in Liam Spencer’s arms, she recalled his coldness in the dream, her chest aching terribly.

Every time after this dream, her resentment towards Liam Spencer deepened.

So she tightly gripped Liam Spencer’s arm and bit hard into his shoulder.

When Liam Spencer was bitten, the pain made him gasp, but he didn’t push her away, only gently patted her back, calming.

Under Liam Spencer’s soothing, Maya slowly regained her composure, took a deep breath, and asked:

"When you received my miscarriage report three years ago, how did you feel?"

Liam Spencer heard the girl’s question, a bit stunned!

Her question came too suddenly!

He paused for a moment, swallowed, his throat sore, inevitably recalling the situation back then.

That feeling, he would never forget for a lifetime.

So he said: "I wanted to kill you."

Maya heard the man’s response, took a deep breath, but didn’t retort.

Then she asked further: "If I had given birth to the baby back then, how did you plan to handle it?"

Maya’s questioning made Liam Spencer very troubled; he didn’t know how to answer.

Earlier when they were warm, he might have confessed he had thought of marrying her.

Yet now, recalling the miscarriage report, recalling she removed their child without consent, he felt upset, had resentment towards her.

Therefore, he avoided the question, patting her back saying: "It’s late, sleep!"

Even though at this moment, he wanted to get an explanation from her, asking her who gave her the right to do that.

But he asked nothing, just quietly held her, quietly chose not to rage, chose to forgive her.

But she must give him back this child.